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CHICAGO— Grain futures were lower Tuesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May delivery unchanged at $5.00 a bushel; May corn was 1.75 cents lower at $3.8625 a bushel; May oats were unchanged at $2.78 a bushel; while May soybeans lost 9.75 cents to $10.04 a bushel. April live cattle was. 85 cent lower at $1.5260 a pound; March feeder cattle was. 10...

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CAIRO, Oct 11- Egypt, the world's biggest wheat importer, will stop purchasing wheat until March 2015, the supplies minister said on Saturday. Egypt purchased 5.46 million tonnes of wheat from abroad in the 2013-2014 fiscal year in addition to 3.7 million tonnes of local wheat. Hanafi said last week Egypt aimed to cut its state imports of wheat in the next year to...

*Wheat supported by USDA stocks view. CHICAGO, Oct 10- Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean futures dropped on Friday, with big crops in focus following a U.S. Agriculture Department report that boosted already-record forecasts for U.S. production. Wheat futures closed higher after the USDA cut its outlook for domestic supplies in the closely watched report.

*Corn, soy firm despite expectations for record crops. Corn and soybeans firmed, with corn notching its seventh straight day of gains. "It seems that the rally ran out of steam as fundamentals globally remain a bit bearish," said Greg Grow, director of agribusiness at Archer Financial Services.

*Corn, soy firm despite expectations for record crops. Corn and soybeans firmed, with corn on track for its seventh straight day of gains. "The U.S. Agriculture Department is going to remind us of a world that is flush with wheat," said Tom Fritz, a partner with EFG Group in Chicago.

*Corn, soy rise ahead of USDA stocks report next week. PARIS/ SINGAPORE, Sept 25- Chicago wheat on Thursday pared overnight gains as operators feared that a rise in the dollar could hamper demand for U.S. supplies, after more than four months of mostly falling prices had reached levels that attracted buyers.

*Wheat traders gained confidence this week after Egypt's GASC bought its first cargo of U.S. wheat in six months, taking SRW at nearly a $10 per tonne discount on a FOB basis to French wheat. *FOB hard red winter wheat basis offers rose 5 cents for Oct/Nov/Dec loadings to 205/ 205/ 200 cents over KCBT December futures.

CHICAGO, Sept 19- U.S. wheat futures fell 2.9 percent to their lowest in more than four years on Friday, matching a similar low in Paris wheat futures, as a global supply glut overwhelmed demand and pressured prices.

*Soybeans, corn shrug off export news. *Soybeans on track for weekly loss of 12.2 percent. CHICAGO, Sept 19- U.S. wheat futures fell 2.1 percent to their lowest in more than four years on Friday, matching a similar low in Paris wheat futures, as a global supply glut overwhelmed demand and pressured prices.

CHICAGO, Sept 17- Chicago Board of Trade soybeans and wheat firmed slightly on Wednesday as bargain hunters stepped into the market to provide a boost to commodities that were trending near four-year lows, traders said. "The new crop is going to overwhelm the balance tables," Matt Zeller, director of market information at INTL FCStone, said in a note to clients.